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[11 July 1845]. Browning, Elizabeth Barrett to Mitford, Mary Russell.

[11 July 1845]. Browning, Elizabeth Barrett to Mitford, Mary Russell.

[London]
Friday. [11 July 1845]
I send you the order at last ever dearest Miss Mitford, & my parcel must be for another day. Your letter was three times welcome & four times kind—& it is delightful to me to know that your indulgence is so great towards me & mine as to allow you to forgive the character of an escapade which with your true & just notions of the filial tie & its duties, must have struck you (if only your instincts worked) as something so blameable & wrong altogether. I told them all what you were likely to think of them!——but you are better than my traditions of you, were!—& really, I, for one, feel just as grateful as if I belonged to the criminal body belonging to me. Yes—there is an excess of strictness. Too much is found objectionable. And the result is that everything

[London]
Friday. [11 July 1845]
I send you the order at last ever dearest Miss Mitford, & my parcel must be for another day. Your letter was three times welcome & four times kind—& it is delightful to me to know that your indulgence is so great towards me & mine as to allow you to forgive the character of an escapade which with your true & just notions of the filial tie & its duties, must have struck you (if only your instincts worked) as something so blameable & wrong altogether. I told them all what you were likely to think of them!——but you are better than my traditions of you, were!—& really, I, for one, feel just as grateful as if I belonged to the criminal body belonging to me. Yes—there is an excess of strictness. Too much is found objectionable. And the result is that everything